Main sponsor of insurance tax for housing fund concedes

3:12 AM,
Feb. 15, 2013

Tina Ward-Pugh, District 9 Councilwoman, Louisville Metro Government

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An effort to raise Louisville's insurance tax rate to pay for affordable housing was all but dead Thursday night after the main sponsor conceded there's "no hope of passage" amid increased defections from the proposed ordinance.

Metro Councilwoman Tina Ward-Pugh, D-9th District, said she has "no expectation it will even be voted out of committee" after a third co-sponsor dropped support and council President Jim King said he would not vote for it.

Ward-Pugh introduced the ordinance Thursday night after saying earlier that she would do so only to prompt discussion of funding affordable ...